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Rozhen Night Plan

Up to ten targets, one night: each gets its good/marginal/poor windows (darkness × altitude × Moon × clouds, as on the single-target page), then the night is handed out five minutes at a time to whichever target is best — with hysteresis, so you get a few solid blocks of at least 30 minutes, not a flicker. Targets that never win a block are listed with the reason.

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Night of Friday, 18 September 2026 · astronomical night 20:59 → 05:31 (8.53 h) · Moon 51% (first quarter) · weather: ERA5 history

M42M42 19:25–03:20: unusableM42 03:20–03:55: marginalM42 03:55–05:35: goodM42 05:35–06:00: marginalM42 06:00–06:40: poorM42 06:40–07:10: unusableobserve M42 03:20–06:00scheduleM4220:0022:0000:0002:0004:0006:00

Faded bands: each target's own windows (green good, amber marginal, pink poor). Dark blue: the schedule. Grey columns: twilight.

Schedule

localtargethoursmean quality
19:25–03:20 — nothing worth pointing at — 7.92
03:20–06:00 M42 2.67 0.62
06:00–07:10 — nothing worth pointing at — 1.17

Targets

targetastronomyoverallbest windowhighestMoon sep.scheduled h
M42 Great Orion Nebula 41 37 03:55–05:35 (good) 42.9° at 07:05 146.5° 2.67

💡 API
curl -sS "https://devops.majbase.com/rozhen-planner/plan-api?targets=M31,M42,M45,NGC%207000&date=2026-09-18"

targets: names or RA Dec, separated by commas, semicolons or newlines, at most ten. The response carries targets[] (score, verdict, best_window, windows, transit, moon_separation), schedule[] (blocks with target, start/end in UTC and local, hours, mean_quality; target: null is idle time), unscheduled[] with a why, forecast_source, warnings[]. Missing targets → 400 {"error", "code": "targets_missing"}.